Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Commercial Law : From 10/01/02 To 07/01/03
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection Law, Per Curiam |
| Title: | NIKE, INC. v. KASKY |
| Date: | 06/26/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-575 |
| Summary: | The court's writ of certiorari is dismissed as being improvidently granted, and the case is sent back to California's state courts for further adjudication. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Agriculture, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Food & Beverages |
| Title: | HILLSIDE DAIRY INC. v. LYONS |
| Date: | 06/09/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-950 |
| Summary: | California's milk pricing and pooling regulations are not exempted from Commerce Clause scrutiny by the Federal Agriculture and Reform Act of 1996. Absence of an express statement identifying out-of-state residency or citizenship as a basis for disparate treatment is not a sufficient basis for rejecting Privileges and Immunities Clause claims. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Public Utilities |
| Title: | ENTERGY LOUISIANA, INC. v. LOUISIANA PUB. SERV. COMM'N |
| Date: | 06/02/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-299 |
| Summary: | A Louisiana Public Service Commission order impermissibly "traps" costs that have been allocated in a FERC tariff, thus the order is subject to federal pre-emption. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration |
| Title: | CITIZENS BANK v. ALAFABCO, INC. |
| Date: | 06/02/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-1295 |
| Summary: | A debt-restructuring agreement had a sufficient nexus with interstate commerce to make an arbitration provision in that agreement enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Government Contracts |
| Title: | NAT'L PARK HOSPITALITY ASS'N v. DEP'T OF THE INTERIOR |
| Date: | 05/27/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-196 |
| Summary: | A National Park Service regulation, purporting to render the Contract Disputes Act of 1978 inapplicable to contracts entered into by concessioners doing business in national parks, is a general policy statement. A challenge to that regulation is not yet ripe for judicial resolution, for lack of a "hardship" showing. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, Government Benefits, Remedies |
| Title: | PHARM. RESEARCH & MFRS. OF AM. v. WALSH |
| Date: | 05/19/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-188 |
| Summary: | A preliminary injunction preventing implementation of a state program reducing prescription drug prices for state residents was improper, where an association of non-resident drug manufacturers could not show probability of success on Commerce Clause claims. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law, Communications Law, Copyright, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property |
| Title: | FED. COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N v. NEXTWAVE PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS, INC. |
| Date: | 01/27/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-653/657 |
| Summary: | Bankruptcy Code section 525 prohibits the FCC from removing licenses held by a debtor in bankruptcy upon the debtor's failure to make timely payments owed to the FCC for purchase of the licenses. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Injury and Tort Law, Transportation |
| Title: | PIERCE COUNTY v. GUILLEN |
| Date: | 01/14/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1229 |
| Summary: | An evidentiary privilege, 23 U.S.C. section 409, which protects information related to certain federal highway safety programs from discovery or admission in certain federal and state trials, is aimed at improving safety in channels of commerce and is a proper exercise of Congress's Commerce Clause authority. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Commercial Law, Transportation |
| Title: | YELLOW TRANSP., INC. v. MICHIGAN |
| Date: | 11/05/02 |
| Case Number: | 01-270 |
| Summary: | The Interstate Commerce Commission's interpretation of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act's fee-cap provision is consistent with the language of that statute and reasonably resolves ambiguity therein, thus that interpretation must receive deference under Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837. |